| View Larger Image | Beyond Therapy: A New Comedy by Christopher Durang | Audio CDBeyond Therapy (Performer)
| List Price: | $18.98 | |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Cast Recording | | Studio: | Varese Sarabande | | Release Date: | August 20, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 240,733th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Act One - Scene 1: A Restaurant
- Track 2: Act One - Scene 2: Dr. Stuart Framingham's Office
- Track 3: Act One - Scene 3: The Office Of Charlotte Wallace
- Track 4: Act One - Scene 4: The Restaurant Again
- Track 5: Act One - Scene 5: Dr. Framingham's Office
- Track 6: Act One - Scene 6: Bruce's Apartment
- Track 7: Act Two - Scene 1: Mrs. Wallace's Office
- Track 8: Act Two - Scene 2: The Restaurant Again
- Track 9: Act Two - Scene 3: The Restaurant Still
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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"I believe one should just act, on instinct. I want a wife and children--and occasionally Bob." by Mary Whipple (New England)  5 Stars
December 16, 2008
Christopher Durang never fails to entertain, amuse, and surprise with his take on issues of the day. In this 1981 play, which ran off-Broadway with Sigourney Weaver in the starring role of Prudence, and then had a later Broadway incarnation with Dianne Wiest in the same role, Durang gently satirizes the tendency of young thirty-somethings to seek therapy as the solution to their problems--even when their therapists have greater problems than they do. Combining his relatively gentle satire of therapy with the perennial search for love and fulfillment by thirty-somethings who are not part of the bar scene or have no appropriate connections to others like themselves, Durang creates a lively and hilarious look at the 1980s, one which still resonates in the present.
All the main characters are in therapy, and scenes between them and their therapists are laugh-out-loud funny, the therapists revealing more deep-seated problems than the main characters do. (One therapist barks; another is in lust with his patient.) Prudence (played by Catherine O'Hara), in her early thirties, has placed an ad in the personals of the newspaper and is meeting Bruce (played by David Hyde Pierce), the person who responded, in a restaurant for the first time. The meeting is not auspicious, with the potential lovers ultimately infuriating each other. A second meeting, in response to Bruce's blatantly phony personal description, is a bit better, though Bruce naively reveals that he has been living with Bob (Richard Kind), his "roommate," for the past year.
Prudence and Bruce clearly have some sort of attraction, but when Prudence visits Bruce's apartment (which she finds just like her own--a plus), she also discovers Bob, who is supposed to be visiting his mother. Bob is jealous and possessive, and all the interrelationships are threatened. Ultimately, all the characters meet in a grand finale that brings the themes of love vs. alienation, the need for acceptance, and the desire to be independent into focus and provides some resolution.
David Hyde Pierce as Bruce is both vulnerable and naïve, a man who inadvertently hurts those who care about him. Prudence (Catherine O'Hara) is the only voice of sanity here, and though she also has problems, she is the point around whom all the crazy action rotates. Stuart (Ed Begley, Jr.), her therapist, is over-the-top in his jealousy and insecurity, adding color and humor to the psychosocial mix. Charlotte Wallace (Kate McGregor), Bruce's therapist, is absurd, a wonderful character who is so crazy that all the other characters look normal by comparison. A terrific satiric look at 1980s thirty-something urban society, this play is less black than many of Durang's later plays, a wonderful introduction to the fine sensibilities and offbeat humor of this unique American talent. n Mary Whipple
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AMAZING recording and accurate to the author's wishes by Jeannine M. James (Southern New Jersey) 5 Stars
October 12, 2007
This is an amazing recording of Durang's hysterical play Beyond Therapy. I was so thrilled to find it because the film version of the play is so horrible that even Mr Durang has written that he wished he took his name of it. The play is a witty jab at therapy, sexuality and blind dating. A must have for any Christopher Durang fan. If you are not familiar with Durang's work, it's dark comedy riddled with irony and satire.
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